Courage To Speak Up Quotes

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. — Tobias Smollett

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. — Maria Callas

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. — Charlene Costanzo

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen. — Charles E. McKenzie

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist — Anuranjita Kumar

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. — Nadia Sahari

If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone. — Richard Wright

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage originally meant To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart. — Brene Brown

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone. — Richard Wright

To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand. — Shannon L. Alder

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening. — Veronica Purcell

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out. — Anne Moody

Women rise up! Speak up. Look up. Within you is all the light the world needs to scare away the darkness that holds it hostage. — Toni Sorenson

Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice. — Nikki Rowe

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about. — Audrey Flack

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous — Agona Apell

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. — Salman Rushdie

I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing. — Ernest Cline

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage. — John Lewis

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly. — Susan Cain

Have courage" therefore means "Let your center speak. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — Seth

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak. — Jane Austen

Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year — Yasunari Kawabata

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs. — Jim George

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. — William Hazlitt

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. — Euripides

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. — Joanna Brooks

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Richard Branson

Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. — Nana Awere Damoah

Resounding ... with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable. — Kathi Appelt

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it. — Criss Jami

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes. — Maggie Kuhn

Be bold, speak from your heart. — Nikki Rowe

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell. — George R R Martin

I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts. — Stendhal

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace. — Shannon L. Alder